Montgomery officials want to move Confederate statue to Rockville park (MD)

By Bill Turque September 23 at 10:21 PM

Montgomery County officials have chosen Beall-Dawson Historical Park in Rockville, the site of a home built by slave-owning Unionists, as the preferred new location for a 102-year-old statue of a Confederate soldier.

The county will send a formal request to the Rockville City Council before the end of the week to place the monument at Beall-Dawson, General Services Director David E. Dise said Wednesday.

The life-size bronze sculpture, which depicts a cavalry private standing with arms folded, sits atop an eight-foot granite pedestal on the lawn next to the Red Brick Courthouse in downtown Rockville ...

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